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“Inertia is the stubborn resistance of the universe to change. It’s the reason why objects at rest tend to stay at rest and objects in motion tend to stay in motion. You can think of inertia as the guardian of the status quo.
At its core, inertia is a property of mass. The more massive an object is, the more it resists changes to its state of motion
... See more“The advice I like to give anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.
All the best ideas come out of the process
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Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
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"Meselenin sırrı gelişigüzel olmakta. İnsanlar gelişigüzel yaşamanın özel bir maharet gerektirmediğini sanıyorlar; oysa süreçte kaybolmayacak, kaybolmamakla kalmayıp bundan zevk almayı başaracak şekilde rastlantısal olmak yoğun bir çalışma gerektiriyor. Kişi, bu şekilde, hazzın doğrudan nesnesinden değil, başka bir şeyden, gelişigüzel bir şekilde o... See more
The Art of Translation No. 4
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Of all the self-help tools I've tested through the years, one has proved more enduring than the rest: Morning Pages. Each day, I rise at 6am sharp, brew a piping-hot...
oliverburkeman.comThe best writing prompt for when I'm stuck is simply "be more honest".
Before I went to graduate school for poetry, I went to graduate school for translation. For a while, I even thought of myself as a translator first, writer second. This did not last—I am not a very good translator—but the experience did form me as a reader and writer. Translators have to be accountable for every idiom, every reference, every syntac
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